How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1966 / Served to 1982

Frederick Stephen Ellis

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Frederick Stephen Ellis was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1924 · age 102
Tenure: 1966–1982 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Ellis authored 1,288 published opinions for the court (1948–1983), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Adams v. Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York (74 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 638 of these were attributed to Ellis by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1958	Adams v. Fidelity and Casualty Co. of New York	107 So. 2d 496	74
1956	Leteff v. Maryland Casualty Company	91 So. 2d 123	54
1968	Arnold v. Stupp Corporation	205 So. 2d 797	49
1962	O'BRIEN v. Traders and General Insurance Company	136 So. 2d 852	41
1979	Cashio v. Baton Rouge General Hospital	378 So. 2d 182	37
1975	ALTEX READY-MAXED CONCRETE CORP. v. Employers Commercial Union Insurance Company	308 So. 2d 889	37
1970	Taylor v. City of Baton Rouge	233 So. 2d 325	36
1969	Craig v. Burch	228 So. 2d 723	36
1978	Beck v. Lovell	361 So. 2d 245	35
1970	Hunter v. SISTERS OF CHARITY OF INCANATE WORD	236 So. 2d 565	35
1957	Talbot v. Trinity Universal Insurance Company	99 So. 2d 811	35
1970	Butler v. Travelers Insurance Co.	233 So. 2d 271	33
1977	Kilbourne v. Armstrong	351 So. 2d 802	32
1958	Bolton v. North River Insurance Company	102 So. 2d 544	31
1970	McDaniel v. Welsh	234 So. 2d 833	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,305 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Frederick Stephen Ellis on?: Frederick Stephen Ellis was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 years on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).